Cowboy Grub-isms

     Ok, That's it. My friend Kelsey has officially challenged me to a blogging war. Basically I don't think this is fair 'cause she has way more things to say than I do but I can't just admit defeat without trying! So tonight I was trying to think about what has happened since Monday that is worth blogging about... I got nothing. I had a chemistry test this morning that I've been studying for all week and that basically took up all the free time that something interesting could happened in. Right now my life is pretty boring and constant and a large amount of my time is taken up by school, work, sleeping, and eating. There isn't enough of the third one but that's what Sunday is for right? So as I was think about this, it led me to my topic for my post tonight.... Cowboy Grub-isms!!!

The Logo from work :)

   

    I am confident that I work with the greatest group of people ever!! That is not to say that I like them all, or that I can even stand most of them but... There is never a dull moment at the Grub!! I have just a couple stories from work that got a chuckle out of me and might give you a giggle. First I have to tell you about Piper, Yes, that is her real name. Honest. Piper is.... hard to describe. She is a few inches taller that me, quite a few inches rounder than me, or most of the people at work for that matter, and she has a very unique personality. When I say unique, I mean she has an abrasive personality that I didn't know how to handle the first night I met her. My first interaction with Piper consisted of her smacking me on the behind with her ticket book and muttering something to the effect of "Move new girl." I wasn't sure I had heard her correctly the first time but as the night went on I learned that my new name at work was "New girl." I asked around to see how worried I should be about this and I learned that Piper just refuses to like people. She says that everyone annoys her and is incompetent. That settled it, forget goals concerning school or personal improvement. My goal is to make Piper like me. Mark my words, she will admit to liking me before either her or I quit working there! Last night I was working and Lindsey one of the other waitresses was talking to Piper about how she felt about different people we work with. She told us how Rachel (Piper calls her flower head, because she wore flowers in her hair one night) didn't bug her until she asked her how to fill the lemonade machine 4 times in one night. Since then she says "She annoys the crap out of me." I took this opportunity to ask Piper if I had done anything to annoy her that badly yet, Her response? "I don't even know your name yet." Ugh, Fail!! I'm pretty sure that she is just bitter with the world and refuses to like anyone... I'm not giving up, just need new tactics. So I'll let you all know how my Piper battles go in the future.

      My other stories are not exciting or really relevant but I feel like venting. I didn't have the best attitude through my high school career but I was at least able to convince myself that it was all worth it because I needed to learn something from my time there... I'm still not sure what it is that I learned there but I can tell you what I did not learn. I most definitely did not learn any Spanish that is in any way useful in the real world!! I am so disappointed. I was mislead by my good grades in my two years of Spanish classes to think that I was at least ok in my Spanish speaking skills. Not so! All of our cooks at work are Hispanic and while some of them speak English... All of them speak Spanish (If that even makes sense.) You've all seen the movie The Best Two Years where the one elder says "What language was she speaking? That is not the language they taught me in the MTC!!!" well that's how I feel about the Spanish the cooks speak and the language that I thought I could speak...Not the same thing! So, that is my second Cowboy Grub-ism: I must learn the Spanish!!

 My third is closely related to my second and that is BE NICE TO THE COOKS!!!! This is the probably the Grub-ism that I am trying my best to apply to all aspects of my life. I think we all take the people in our lives for granted! It's amazing how friendly my Hispanic chef friends can be. Jaime (Hi-May not Jaime like my mom's name) Is the sweetest little man ever. Weekends are crazy at the Grub and sometimes, especially being the new girl, I feel like I am not going to make it through the night! Several times when I've been teetering on the edge of snapping my friend Jaime will look over the counter at me and say "Dani...Breathe, Smile. 's ok." It amazes me how harsh some of the servers can be when they are in a crunch and the chefs don't have everything just right when in reality it is sometimes the servers own fault. So I guess my Grub-ism is more or less to appreciate everyone that does anything for you!! Even the littlest things that people do for you, they are still often doing something that they don't really have to do for you.

     My final Grub-ism for the night is: Be Happy and Polite! I am so grateful that my parents especially my mom taught me the importance of manners. Since I'm the new girl, the managers are usually really good about looking out for me and will asking me how I'm doing a couple of times a night. So, in my world when someone ask you how you are doing the polite response is something to the effect of "I'm good, How are you?" You should have seen my manager, Doug's, face the first time I replied that way. I honestly thought I'd done something wrong the way her looked at me. I asked him what was up and he just said "I literally don't think I've ever got that response from someone when I asked them that." This job has helped me realize how much I like happy people. It is so difficult to wait on people who have already decided that they are unhappy when they come in. I know everyone has bad days but everyone should try to be happy. I am a firm believer that if you put your mind to it you can make your day better! You just gotta concentrate on the good things. I hope you enjoyed my Grub-isms and that you can all find a way to apply maybe one of them to your lives.